Bellowing Elk
Creature — Elk
As long as you had another creature enter the battlefield under your control this turn, this creature has trample and indestructible.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Horizons
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #25391
Bellowing Elk enters as a 3/3 with trample and gains hexproof as long as you control another creature with power 4 or greater — that combination makes it a genuinely sticky threat for four mana in green. The catch is real: the hexproof evaporates the moment your big creature leaves the battlefield, so it rewards dense stompy builds and punishes sparse ones.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Bellowing Elk earns a slot in green stompy decks that reliably maintain a high-power board — think Ghalta, Primal Hunger or Surrak, the Hunt Caller builds where a 4-power creature is almost always in play. Outside Commander, Bellowing Elk is legal in Pauper, where a four-mana 3/3 with conditional hexproof and trample is too slow to compete with the format's efficient threats and removal. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters for the same reason — the rate just doesn't scale. It's a Commander-only card in practice.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Bellowing Elk is deep bulk — pick it out of a common box rather than paying shipping for a single copy. That price is stable by definition; bulk commons don't move unless a combo or format spike appears, and nothing on the horizon suggests one here.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.